House bill · 119th Congress · Latest step: Introduced
Health Care Providers Safety Act of 2025
Official title: To amend the Public Health Service Act to authorize grants to health care providers to enhance the physical and cyber security of their facilities, personnel, and patients.
Open in Bill Explorer →Where it went
- IntroducedJan 22, 2025
- Committee action—
- Passed House—
- Passed Senate—
- To the President—
- Became law—
Latest action: Jan 22, 2025 — Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
Cost and committee reports
Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 612.
- Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Ms. ESCOBAR, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 171, No. 13, January 22, 2025, Page H300):THE U.S. CONSTITUTION ARTICLE 1, SECTION 8: POWERS OF CONGRESS CLAUSE 18 The Congress shall have power . . . To make all laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into execution the foregoing powers, and all other powers vested by this Constitution in the government of the United States, or in any department or officer thereof.Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record January 22, 2025 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- constitutionalAuthorityStatementText
- Statement length
- 341 characters
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 612, 119th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/119/hr/612
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- January 13, 2026
- PORKER copy retrieved
- September 13, 2026
- Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file
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Vote results
No recorded roll-call votes on this bill in PORKER’s records (voice votes and unanimous consent are not roll calls; roll-call records start in 2011).
Cosponsors
72 cosponsors — 72 Democrats
0 of 72 cosponsors (0%) are from the other party.
Alma Adams (D-NC), Yassamin Ansari (D-AZ), Becca Balint (D-VT), Nanette Barragán (D-CA), Joyce Beatty (D-OH), Sanford Bishop (D-GA), Suzanne Bonamici (D-OR), Shontel Brown (D-OH), Julia Brownley (D-CA), Janelle Bynum (D-OR), Salud Carbajal (D-CA), André Carson (D-IN), Sean Casten (D-IL), Kathy Castor (D-FL), Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick (D-FL), Yvette Clarke (D-NY), Steve Cohen (D-TN), Gerald Connolly (D-VA), Lloyd Doggett (D-TX), Lizzie Fletcher (D-TX), Lois Frankel (D-FL), Maxwell Frost (D-FL), Robert Garcia (D-CA), Jimmy Gomez (D-CA), Raúl Grijalva (D-AZ), Jahana Hayes (D-CT), James Himes (D-CT), Pramila Jayapal (D-WA), Henry Johnson (D-GA), Julie Johnson (D-TX) and 42 more.
More from the sponsor
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Sponsor’s state and district
Data as of Sep 13, 2026 · bill record checked by PORKER from Congress.gov · votes from Senate.gov and the House Clerk. PORKER is non-partisan.